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<p>Small boats crossing the English Channel were an infrequent phenomenon prior to
2018. Incidences involving small boats, as a result, were not recorded with this level
of granularity.</p><p> </p><p>However, information was provided to the Home Affairs
Select Committee (HASC) on 5<sup>th</sup> March 2019 which gave the number of migrants
detected entering the UK by small boats from January 2018 to February 2019 as 428.</p><p>
</p><p>On 22 July 2019 the then Home Secretary Sajid Javid provided an additional
figure to Home Affairs Select Committee that up to 21 July 2019, 725 migrants had
crossed the English Channel.</p><p>We anticipate publication of 2019/2020 data in
the coming months.</p>
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